“The Men, who have taken care to engross the affairs of Religion, as well as others, to their own management, are no more guided in that than in any thing else by the dictates of reason. The religion they were… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“And the differences thence arising [between the constitution of men and women] are no ways sufficient to argue more natural strength in the one… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“If from immemorable time, the Men had been so little envious, and so very impartial, as to do justice to our talents, by admitting… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“I shou'd not myself have thought [Cato] worth so much notice as I have here taken of him; but that the Men are weak… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“it appears that there is no other difference between Men and Us than what their tyrany has created, it will then appear how unjust… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“Let us treat Women as our equals, (says [the 'blubblering dotard' xD Cato]) and they will immediately want to become our mistresses." 'Tis Cato… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“The manner Women are bred in, (...) they are admitted to no share of the exercises which wou'd qualify them to attack or defend.… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“the many absurd notions the Men are led into by custom: Tho' there is none more absurd, than that of the great difference they… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediately find the spaniel metamorphosed into a tyger,… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university chairs, it… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share in with… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“There are some however more condescending, and gracious enough to confess, that many Women have wit and conduct; but yet they are of opinion,… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“Surely the Women were created (...) for some better end, than to labour in vain their whole life long.” — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“Were we [Women] to express our conceptions of God, it wou'd never enter into the head of any one of us to describe him… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“IT is enough for the Men to find a thing establish'd to make them believe it well grounded. In all countries we are seen… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
